Design a software application for the SMART Table, and you’ll have the chance to win your own SMART Table.

Prizes

The grand prize for the contest is a SMART Table. SMART will also promote the winning application on the SMART website for one year, giving your school the potential to establish a revenue stream.

Click Here  to find out more.

Increasingly many publishers are producing content designed for delivery through VLEs, this is usually presented in SCORM format and often contains a number of PowerPoint files with embedded flash content. Many of us would like to re-engineer this to meet our own needs. The following routine outlines how to disaggregate some of this content content into its component assets, namely extracting embedded Flash content from a PowerPoint.

Part 1

1. Download the extractaflash.exe file from here
2. Place this extracted file into C:\

Part 2

1. Open Powerpoint File
2. Make sure the Active X control is enabled
3. Go to the slide with the embedded Flash File
4. ‘Select’ it with your mouse and drag it to the desktop – this creates a Scrap file….which is really called Scrap.shs
5. Now move the Scrap file to C:\

Part 3

1. Go to Start–>Run and type cmd
2. On the Command line type cd\ [enter]
3. Now type exactly ….. C:\extractaflash.exe c:\Scrap.shs c:\output.swf
4. Your flash file is now called output.swf in c:\ that can be renamed to whatever you want to call it —remember the .swf extension!!

A new decade, how far have we come with learning in the last decade and how far will we have travelled in the next decade? Will Richardson publishes his hopes and expectations of how much actual change will happen in schools over the next decade. He feels, along with many others I’m sure, that things have moved too slowly this past ten years, and that by 2020 we shouldn’t hold our breaths too much. He may have a point, but I’m more hopeful…

Well, I’ve finally decided to resurrect my blog for 2010. My target is to post at last once a week – Let’s see if I can

Happy New Year…

Spotted this in my journey through the blogosphere : Plagiarismadvice.org - a website provided by JISC to provide advice on plagiarism. It includes resources for avoiding plagiarism, discussion as to why pupils do plagiarise and how to avoid it. The website also provides guidance on developing information literacy skills in using electronic sources.